The Silent World
30 minute Sound installation; Wood, PVC, copperoxide paintWe perceive the deep sea as a silent place.
Creatures of the ocean exist within the echoing landscape of water and have evolved a relationship with sound as their main basis of communication, location and being within space.
It has never been a silent place.
With this, our noise from shipping, sonar, pile-driving and seismic surveys, are disruptive sounds that mix, churn and flow into a hum, stretching out to every corner of the sea, from shore to deserted arctic. Deafening sound has now become a constant; we have manipulated a ‘silent’ place, and fabricated an underwater planet without refuge.
The piece was created through underwater recordings. The results from these recordings I combined into a piercing soundpiece that shows the extreme noise pollution humans create in the oceans. When you stepped into the red pod, you were transformed into another world, taking on the life of a marine organism. This work shows that by presenting a new way of sensing the world, you can completely alter people’s view of reality.
This work was presented in het Stedelijk museum, as part of the uncut group exhibition surrounding the theme: ‘refuge - fleeing, flowing, leaking’. The work considers the lack of refuge in earth’s oceans, caused by human-made sound’. It is a deafening sound piece mixing the different sources of artificial sound under water that grows in intensity in its 30 minute duration.
Creatures of the ocean exist within the echoing landscape of water and have evolved a relationship with sound as their main basis of communication, location and being within space.
It has never been a silent place.
With this, our noise from shipping, sonar, pile-driving and seismic surveys, are disruptive sounds that mix, churn and flow into a hum, stretching out to every corner of the sea, from shore to deserted arctic. Deafening sound has now become a constant; we have manipulated a ‘silent’ place, and fabricated an underwater planet without refuge.
The piece was created through underwater recordings. The results from these recordings I combined into a piercing soundpiece that shows the extreme noise pollution humans create in the oceans. When you stepped into the red pod, you were transformed into another world, taking on the life of a marine organism. This work shows that by presenting a new way of sensing the world, you can completely alter people’s view of reality.
This work was presented in het Stedelijk museum, as part of the uncut group exhibition surrounding the theme: ‘refuge - fleeing, flowing, leaking’. The work considers the lack of refuge in earth’s oceans, caused by human-made sound’. It is a deafening sound piece mixing the different sources of artificial sound under water that grows in intensity in its 30 minute duration.
